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Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: a first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies (dataset and R scripts)

  • 1. Department of Ancient History, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich
  • 2. Department of Archaeology, Durham University
  • 3. Institute of Archaeology, University College London

Description

The present digital archive is the outcome of the paper: Palmisano, A., Lawrence, D., de Gruchy, M.W., Bevan, A., and Shennan, S., 2021. Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: a first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies. Quaternary Science Reviews, 252: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106739

The dataset included here provides a collection of 10,606 radiocarbon dates, 1884 sites from archaeological surveys (1336 from Central Anatolia and 478 from Upper Mesopotamia) and 16 palaeoclimatic records for a period spanning between 14,000 and 2500 BP. In addition, the digital archive related to this paper provides reproducible analyses in the form of four scripts written in R statistical computing language.

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Funding

CLaSS – Climate, Landscape, Settlement and Society: Exploring Human-Environment Interaction in the Ancient Near East 802424
European Commission